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Author:

Weber, Brenda R., 1964-

Title:

Makeover TV : selfhood, citizenship, and celebrity / Brenda R. Weber.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xi, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Makeover television programs--United States.
Makeover television programs--Social aspects--United States.
Self-realization--Social aspects--United States.
Self-perception--Social aspects--United States.
Television--Social aspects--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Into the makeover maze : a method in the madness -- Makeover nation : Americanness, neoliberalism, and the citizen-subject -- Visible subjects : economies of looking, pedagogies of shame, sights of resistance -- "I'm a woman now!" : race, class, and femme-ing the normative -- What makes the man? Masculinity and the self-made (over) man -- Celebrated selfhood : reworking commodification through reality celebrity -- Can this makeover be saved?

Series:

Console-ing passions

ISBN:

0822345684 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822345688 (pbk. : alk. paper)
082234551X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822345510 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317824543

LCCN:

2009012706

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)